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The Day I Bought a Star

The Day I Bought a Star

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 3, 2006

Runtime

0h 16m

Genres

Animation, Fantasy

User Score

78%

Original Title

星をかった日

Production Companies

Studio Ghibli

Director

Hayao Miyazaki

Description

The short film is about a boy who lives and works on a farm. One day when going to sell vegetables at a market, his cart breaks down. Two strangers, a frog and a mole, offer him a strange seed in exchange for the vegetables. The boy accepts and finds that the seed grows into a miniature planet. It continues growing as he tends to it, forming an atmosphere, weather systems and life. After being taken back to the city, he meets the stranger who sold the seed to him, and they release the planet into a galaxy of similar planets, where it will grow for years until becoming a real planet.